The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-07-16
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Confederate Veterans in Boston OH
Bunker Hill day. with its striking in.
tcrchange of friendly feeling and pa
triotic sentiment, puts to shame the
paltry practices of politicians, now
thrust upon our attention on every
hand in anticipation of the Presidential
campaign of next year The Old Do
minion and the old Bay State, the two
foremost Commonwealth of the rcvo-
luton. which were also prominent and
representative States of the antagonism
of our civil war, were here in perfect
accord. The soldiers of Robert +. Lee
cncampmcnt of Richmond, with wives,
sisters, daughters and cousins in their
company were the honorcd guests of
John A. Andrew Post of the Grand
Army, and were escorted around Bos-
ton by other Grand Army posts and
Union veteran associations, and fed il.
Fnncuil Hall. The platform where
they sat was decorated with the State
shields of Massachusetts and Virginia
The invited guests numbered men of
distinction on the battle field, i'm Con-
grcss and in various walks of public
and of business life OH both sides of
the old line of division. But there was
not II word of division uttered; not IL
hostile emotion found vent. 1t could
not have been the mere courtesy of the
occasion that inspired the enthusiastic
tone of the utteranccs.
Comradc Harrison Hume. of the An
drew Post, as toastmaster of the BAN
quet, began II singularly-imprcssive
address by quoting the words of a
Virginian: THAT there is some thing
higher than the Confederate soldier
that there is some thing higher than the
Federal soldier-it is the brotherhood
of brave men," And he declared that
now, in Faneuil Hall: "Ncw England
offers you the hand which straight
from his soldiers heart. Grant offered
Lee at Appomattox." She meant it.
said the speaker; and "if there be some
with us as with you, who. having
1earned nothing and forgotten moth
ing to satisfy their mad ambition
would fan anew the flames of strife
and discord, would doubt what have
said, the boys who wore the blue.
who barred their bosoms to the storm of
battle, will tell you that speak the
words of truth and sobcrness. He
addressed the guests as "Comradcs of
the Gray" and badc them remember
when on the heights of fredericksburg
they beat back the hopeless assaults OF
the Union army; he reminded the
"Comrades of the Blue" of the assault
of Pickett at Gettysburg. to the mo-
mcnt when "the limit of human ell
durancc has been reached.
and the most magnificent charge in
the annals of war has passed into his
tory" Then he said:
Comrades OF the Gray, you have failed. for |
the alwisc God OF battles had dccrccd that the |
American Union should be one and indivisible; |
but you then and there wrote your names on |
the page of history as the ''bravcst of the |
brave" Comrades of the Blue, it was Virgini- |
ans that made that charge. Tonight those |
same men extend 10 you the right hand of fell |
lowship. Comrades OF the Gray, as l |
stood upon one OF your hills of blue, as an Octo-
ber sun was sinking to rest, and looked forth |
upon your beautiful valley OF the Shenandoah,
with Joy and cxultation, exclaimcd '"rhis 10
my country" Do presume too much when |
say that as you stood to-day upon the green
turf of yondcr venerable summit, once wet |
with precious blood, spilled in defense OF hu.
man rights and human liberty, overlooking
this great metropolis OF New England,
while near you were beautiful cities and vii !
lagos, where freedom and knowledge and NOR
nlS and religion are the birthr ght OF all; while
near you were Concord and Lexington, where
m md ttyt t,Ira
yps fired the shot heard round the world" and
near you that ancient university under whose
shadow Washington, to whom Virginia gave
birth. of whose fame all other States are proud
o claim share, first drew his sword in com
nand of American armics-that you too, ex-
claimed: God governs in the affairs of mon
These, these are my brethren; and this, oh
his, too is my country"
IT was the true voice of the North
hat spoke through the lips of Com
'ade Hume, and the South knows it,
politicians with their 'mad ambition"
% the contrary Notwithstanding.
Nor is there any doubt in the North
as to the true voice of the South. We
Ill know perfectly well that the
So, tn has turned over new leaf, and
that ii is going to stay turned. There
is not left in the whole stretch of the
former slave States corporars guard
Of men who do not know that the Ma
lion is henceforth aud forever above
the State; the war settled it, and none
Of them wish it were Otherwise, none
Of them want slavery back again. they
are all faced to the front. The speech
Of John Goodc, of Virginia, empha.
SEED and reiterated that fact. For the
very purpose of emphasizing it he re-
called how all through tho war Vir-
ginia was a battlefield, and "almost |
every house II hospital" and when it
ended there was nothing left but the soil.
Bat, he declared, when any man sup
poses that Virginia. the mother of
Henry, Of Jefferson. of Mason, of Mad
Ison, of Marshall. of Neutrality-suspicious.
not love the Union, "hc is most eyre
giously mistaken" 1--WE are ready to
grasp hands, he said, "with the men
OF Massachusetts in starting our coun-
try upon new career of prosperity"
These are honest words, and the men
that utter such words when they are
visiting here, under the influence of
talk the same way when
they are at home and the occasion
rises. The Northern men who go South
VIII all youch for this; it is only the
politicians who lie about it.-Spring-
NeiA (4lass.) Republican,
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